Daft Punk Helmet replica finally completed

[Harrison Krix] finished his Daft Punk Helmet replica and posted about it this week. We took a look at his work back in October but he’s come a long way to pull off a legendary build. Take three minutes after the break and see 17 months worth of work. So many skills were pulled together to make this happen; sculpting, mold making, painting, electronic design, mechanical design, and bad-ass-ery. Crammed in along with your noggin are a bag-full of LED boards but the Arduino that controls it all resides outside, in a project box tethered to the helmet. This is a masterpiece of socially-unwearable geek fashion.

cannot imagine putting that much work in a helmet but it worked out to be perfect.

projects like this are ofcourse all about the build and not about using it because it will be on a shelve somewhere to be shown to other geeks only once in a while. so the movie shows the important part of the project 99% build 1% usage!

Thank you for posting this, because of the video I saw (up top side), I decided to look into the group Draft Punk and have thus discovered a new genre to love “House”. Not to mention that helmet is sweet. I wonder if he can see through it, adding a LCD panel or something similar, internal noise canceling speakers (Bose,ect) and Bluetooth 4 to handle all the video+audio goodness would make this the most amazing Wearable Video Display ever. seriously this helmit in and of its self has given me many ideas. I really wish i had the tools to develop something similar to this bad boy.
sexy underwater, space worthy HUD. lol but that just a dream of mine (for now).

However, the underlying roots are another story. The assault on our auditory senses by that mindless genre of no-talent-required ‘music’ (and i use the term very loosely) is, a throw back to the neanderthal cave dwellers.

Sweet hack, but I can’t help think that he could have made the electronics fit inside the helmet. If all you’re doing is controlling LEDs it would be easy to make a custom board and fit it inside the helmet. But that’s something to do for the next build.

@Pantera4EVR
Hahahahaha! I’m sorry you don’t like or appreciate good music, you ancient metalhead wannabe. Any retard can play a power chord over and over and scream into a microphone. It takes talent to develop melodies and beats and make them fit together.

Perhaps when your hearing returns and your neck problems subside you could give something not brain-dead a chance, hm?

@RBRat3 He did make more than one because the chroming was a trial-and-error process that ended up eating probably 7 or 8 casts. He also sold several raw casts in order to help pay for our wedding.

@Decius It cost a lot; I doubt he really made any money off the commission. He makes stuff like this because it’s fun, but he wouldn’t consider it fun to just churn out the same thing over and over. He explains this at his FAQ here.

@zool The lighting design was directly lifted from the Discovery-era helmets, per request of the client (see here); the LED panel in front was omitted, also per request of the client, in order to retain vision.

@Brennan The external box is not just for the arduino but also for the 6 AAs that run the lights. The client preferred having the display controls off the helmet.

@caps It does look big because it was scaled to fit his client, who is 6’3″, while Harrison is only about 5’8″.

He was commissioned by Guy (of Daft Punk) to build this replica helmet. He mentions it several times on his website (if you’re the kind of person who reads those things). He hints that Thomas (the other half of Daft Punk) has asked him to build his helmet as well.